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Beyond Information: College Choice As A Literacy Practice, Jeremy Samuel Greenfield
Beyond Information: College Choice As A Literacy Practice, Jeremy Samuel Greenfield
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Every year more than two million high school seniors prepare for and apply to college. These students visit college websites, write college admission essays, complete online application forms and use digital literacy tools to elicit and share knowledge about college. These literacy practices are central to the college choice process. Nonetheless, few scholars have examined how these practices are experienced by students or framed by the schools these students attend. Guided by Gee's Discourse theory, this study examines how a group of 14 high school seniors who attended a high poverty high school in the Bronx, New York developed the …